I Didn’t Think I’d Last a Month as a Healer. Here’s What I’ve Learned.

When I started Healing Heart Reiki nearly two decades ago, I truly didn’t think I’d make it a month. Eighteen years later, I’m still here. And this winter as I spent much of December recovering from a concussion, here's what I learned...

Healers Don't Rest Enough

On the bright side, it was a very sweet December, with kindness and memorable moments. I enjoyed work, and I also enjoyed many quiet moments at home.

However, I found it SO HARD to unwind, relax, and do nothing. A few of you got to watch me twirling and whirling in restless energy. I'm not sure I ever actually stopped much of anything as a result, but there was a slow and deep unwinding.

The more I unwound, the more I could feel how parts of me, frozen in the adrenaline and cortisol of the concussion, were beginning to melt and return.

Healers don't often rest enough. We're busy constantly giving to others, or holding space for others. I've so many clients who were natural caretakers who didn't take care of themselves. I think we can "think" that we're back to normal, and realize much, much later that we've remained in an altered state. I was surprised to discover I'd slipped in that regard.

Dedication And Rededicating to The Work Happens Everyday

When I first began Healing Heart Reiki, it was at the behest of my guides and because of a pretty incredible visionary experience I had. As each year passes, I see that this was really the medicine I was meant to share all along.

For several years I wasn't sure if I'd still be doing the work a year later. Then it began to dawn on me that taking it day by day was, perhaps, the most honest approach to the work to keep me honest.

In Healing Heart Reiki, I am both a teacher and life coach.

As a teacher I share wonderful methods and practices in class that help us to embrace the fullness of life.

As coach, I hold the sacred space of the priestess, sometimes intuitively channeling and other times really listening and supporting the birthing of new consciousness from my clients.

This work is both an art and a science. At times I feel I've made a mess of things, the path has felt unclear, and I've questioned myself, but the glow of transformation I've witnessed  in both myself and my students is so profound, all I can feel is love and gratitude for all of the people I've met on this journey, and all of the support I've received in the work I do. It brings me back to why this work matters.

Sometimes I forget that I've been doing this work within Healing Heart Reiki for 18 years now. That's almost 20 years! When I first began I wasn't sure I'd last more than a single month!

my first office was here!

I remember the magical Bernadette Wulf letting me borrow some cds and booklets so that I could be confident in starting a business. I was so thankful!

Back in those days, I even purchased a few cassette tapes of Hawayo Takata to play on my portable cassette player so I could continue to learn Reiki in many forms.

I've grown a lot, and I continue to grow. If you really want to be put through the energetic ringer in which you're asked to face an accelerated level of personal shadows, become a teacher that teaches energy healing!

As we begin this new year, I rededicate myself to sharing the light of healing in this world. It is the very best thing I've done. Better even than when I was an art registrar, or working in Beverly Hills, or the law firm, the marketing at the W Hotels, or doing costume design.

It's deeply emotionally gratifying to be of service to others in this way.

Lessons From The Path

I truly believe that we all have the ability to heal ourselves and to cultivate happiness within our lives. Mikao Usui, founder of Reiki, says that Reiki is a system for "cultivating happiness!"

There are so many tools and so many pathways for the work of cultivating happiness!

In the last few decades I have taken yoga teacher training, stepped into the path of tantric facilitation for personal embodiment, learned about flower essences, Neurolinguistic programming, EFT Tapping, I've been ordained as a Priestess, initiated, and had so many other amazing experiences in the name of personal growth and well being.

I often meet people who are successful, but emotionally a little bit numb or unhappy with the life they've created. We're so lucky that we don't need to stay unhappy!

As the poet and mystic Rumi says:

"Today, like every other day, we wake up empty

and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study

and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.

"Let the beauty we love be what we do.

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."

(Essential Rumi)

I love this to no end. There's even a power raising chant we sometimes sing that is derived from this poem.

Some days I pull down EFT tapping, other days NLP. Often, my mind is processing with the support of the many lessons I learned being born and raised Buddhist. But always, Reiki (life force energy) is swirling, and I recognize that ultimately we are nothing but stardust and love.

We ARE energy, and our loving intentions can open up incredible dimensions love and adventure in our lives.

If you're still reading, thank you for sharing your time with me, and now, as I am finally shaking off the sleepiness of concussions, winter cookies, and the winter astrology that might has well have been a telenovela, I look forward to spending time with you in this new year!

If you’re on your own healing journey, or you’ve been questioning the path lately… I see you. Keep walking, there are fields of flowers up ahead.

blessings,

Dailey

Rev. Dailey Little, RMT.

Healing Heart Reiki

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